Comments on: Adding Excel Chart Data

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:28:17 +0000

Laurie -

Don’t try adding the data to the top of the old data. First, you’d have to add only the difference. Second, you’d have to do something else if a score declines.

Just add the new scores as a new series. Keep the clustered column chart type. The new scores will appear adjacent to the old scores.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:33:40 +0000

I have to create a bar chart with current test scores for a course I am taking. Next week, I need to add scores to the chart but the prof wants the second scores added to the top of the original bars in a different color so he can see improvement. How do I add that second color (data) to the top of the original bars?

By: kashi

kashi — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:31:33 +0000

Dear Sir,
My Name is Kashi, I am trying to make a panel chart and just could not follow the formula, =((B2-E$9)/(E$10-E$9)*E$12+SUM($D$12:D$12))/SUM($E$12:$G$12). I have been trying this for a week now, Can you please help, I am doing this chart for the below sales data’s.

Products A B C D E Total
Apr-10 62.75 48.46 17.6 60.64 5.58 195.03
Apr-11 108.35 77.27 23.71 118.8 4.1 332.23
May-10 105.54 106.14 24.26 90.44 3.53 329.91
May-11 139.91 105.39 32.41 214.01 16.91 508.63
Jun-10 123.21 74.64 32.38 136.13 7.89 374.25
Jun-11 141.26 102.13 60.83 180.51 41.4 526.13
1st qtr-2010 291.5 229.24 74.24 287.21 17 899.19
1st qtr 2011 389.52 284.79 116.95 513.32 62.14 1366.99

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:28:15 +0000

Praveen - Use the Dot Plot technique.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:49:07 +0000

Hi. My name is Praveen and I heard about your site while searching for answers to create a break in the y-axis of excel charts. I am still not sure how to go about doing this in regards to my data – since I need to make around 60 charts and adding marker data to each chart will be extremely time consuming, but I have another question. I was wondering how to switch the x and y axis of a chart. I have a .jpg picture of what my chart looks like and how I want the x and y axis switched at this address:

http://www.bananacity.org/media/excelhelp.jpg

your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:34:38 +0000

The dollar signs are very important, because they differentiate between absolute and relative referencing. A dollar sign before the column letter makes the column reference absolute, a dollar sign before the row number makes the row reference absolute, and without the dollar sign, each is relative.

If I have a reference to A1 in a cell, and I copy it to the cell down one row and right one column, the following changes to the formula occur:

original: =A1
copied: = B2

original: = $A$1
copied: =$A$1

original: =$A1
copied: =$A2

original: =A$1
copied: =B$1